I've only read two books on Polish history and it doesn't say much about it's pre-christian history. I was wondering if my fellow Poles could tell me all they learned and know about this period. (Seeing "Stara Basn" has gotten me interested lol)

I take interest in Polish history only in the period after 963, the year when Prince Mieszko had to adopt Christianity for Poland (or else face the Teutonic extermination). To me, the idea Poland without Christianity makes no sense whatsoever.

We know nearly nothing about pre-christian Poland however modern polish scholars assume that in the second half of IX centaury the new ruler have take the power in Gniezno. The prince name was Siemowit and he controlled probably territory of Greatpoland. His son Lestek have conquered Kujavia, Mazovia and the land of Ledzianie (todays Sandomierz). Son of Lestek - Siemomysl have directet the expansion toward north, conquering the land between Greatpoland and Pomorie.

Latest archeological works seems to proove that the capital of Polanie tribe was Poznan while Gniezno was a pagan religious center.This year in Poznan archeologists found huge fortifications, a city wall or rather earth/wood/stone wall about 14 metres wide and 10 metres high. 2 years ago also the palace of first polish rulers was discovered also in Poznan. Both the palace and fortifications are dated on half of the 10th century. The size of these constructions seems to proove that Polanie were a well organsied tribe and that my city - Poznan was their political center.

The English site was very informative and I tried reading the Polish site even though I only understood only like half of the words because written polish and spoken polish is very different and I'm only used to spoken.

Mine are mainly from Malopolska and the territory lost to Ukraine(I don't know the name of the province/region). The later immigrated to the new acquired German territories to Silesia.

PS: Too bad there's not more documentation on pre-christian Poland. It sounds so interesting, especially finding out where exactly did the Slavs come from(b4 coming to Eastern Europe) and other stuff like that.

My Grandfather had said that our family was from Galicia. He was born in Tarnow. Thanks for asking.

It's good to know someone here has similiar interests. Hopefully we can learn more here on this forum. Rava is really good on this subject and seems to have a wealth of information. I wonder if ScythKing from the old AllEmpires forum is here, maybe under a different name (BTW I used to be GoldenAge on AllEmpires). He also was able to provide a lot of material on origins and migrations and that sort of thing.

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